CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – For the second
straight week, multiple UMBC track and field athletes earned
America East Performer of the Week honors, the conference office
announced on Tuesday afternoon. Seniors Trae
Proctor (Brandywine, Md./Thomas Stone) and Shioma
Obemeata (New Rochelle, N.Y./Iona Prep/St. Francis) once
again swept the male weekly awards, while freshman D'Nique Phillip (Elkton, Md.) earned her first Female
Track Athlete of the Week accolade.

Proctor earns his second straight Male Track Athlete of the Week
award after becoming the first Retriever in school history to go
under eight seconds in the 60m hurdles. A week after
matching the UMBC school record of 8.00 held by Negasi
Gerima, Proctor claimed the record for himself by running
a 7.89 in the event finals at the Gotham Cup in New
York. The senior sprinter finished tied for third
overall in the event, but placed as the top collegiate
competitor. His time ranks as the fastest in the America East
this season and 11th-fastest in the country.

Senior Trae Proctor

Joining his classmate as a back-to-back winner, Obemeata also
reset a personal-best in the Big Apple. Competing in the
triple jump, Obemeata finished third in the event by leaping 14.71m
(48'3.25"), setting a new career-best and recording the longest
such jump in the conference this season. His jump
cleared his previous best which he set last season at the IC4A meet
in Boston.

Meanwhile, Phillip earns her first career conference award
following just her third collegiate meet. At the Gotham
Cup, the freshman finished tied for seventh in the 60m dash after
lowering her career-best time twice. In the
preliminaries, Phillip ran a then-best 7.73 to advance to the
finals where she lowered her time to 7.71, the third-fastest time
in school history and in the America East this season.

UMBC continues its indoor season this weekend at the Terrapin
Invitational on Saturday, Jan. 19 at the Prince George's Sports
& Learning Complex.